Biography
Natália da Silva Perez engages transnational and comparative perspectives on cultural history from 1600 to 1900. She focuses on the history of women of high and low social status as they interacted with their families, communities, and authorities. She also works on the historical development of public discourses about women. Another point of focus of her research is natural language processing tools for historical documents, with a special emphasis on domain adaptation to multilingual contexts with low resources, and on the development of tools for the mitigation of algorithmic bias in quantitative approaches to historical texts.
She is the principal investigator of the project Racialized Motherhood (2023-2028), a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Copenhagen funded by a Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Her research team uses data-driven methods to compare how early newspapers represented motherhood for women of different origins during the early modern colonial period.
She supervises PhD, master's, and bachelor's research projects that focus on the history of women, intersectionality, diversity, knowledge-making, information, and discourse. She also guides students interested in employing methods from the digital humanities.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
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Work
- Natacha Klein Kafer & Natália da Silva Perez (2024) - Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Period - [link]
- Natália da Silva Perez (2024) - Privacy in Recife, Freedom in Amsterdam: An enslaved woman’s practical strategies of autonomy across the Atlantic - [link]
- Natacha Klein Käfer & Natália da Silva Perez (2024) - Privacy and Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Period - Know, 8 (1-2), 1-10 - doi: 10.1086/729628
Bachelor Thesis Class
- Level
- BA-3
- Year Level
- BA-3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH3078
Doing Historical Research
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4018
History of Modern Societies
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH1105
Religion, Culture and Global Encounters
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2206
Quantitative Historical Methods
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2216
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4050
Applied History MA Project
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4052
Assistant Professor
- Start date approval
- september 2024